Highlights & Reminders

The faculty in Geography-Earth Science wish all of you a productive and safe summer! For those of you working at your internships, keep up the hard work. Make us proud! When you get a chance, share some photos with the department Facebook page and let us know what you are up to. Click here: https://www.facebook.com/ShipGeoESS

Fall Classes Begin Soon

Just a reminder, fall classes begin on Monday August 24, 2015. If you have any questions about your fall class schedule, please contact the office and someone will be able to assist you. The office phone number is 477-1685.

2015 Department Photo Contest:

Don't forget, each fall we will run our student-faculty-alumni photo contest! So get some great shots this summer. Be thinking about all those awesome Geo/ESS themes!

Teaching & Research Interests

Courses

Geography of the US & Canada

Globalization in the Caribbean

GIS I, GIS II, GIS III and Applied GIS

Field Techniques in Geography

Current Funded Projects

Jantz CA (Science PI), Drzyzga SA, O’Neil-Dunne, J, and Claggett P. Land Cover Mapping, Modeling and Monitoring System for the Delaware River Basin, Funding provided by the William Penn Foundation. $1 million budget over two years.

Completed Projects

Jantz CA and Drzyzga SA. Collaborative Research: Dynamic Coupling of the Water Cycle with Patterns of Urban Growth. Funding provided by the National Science Foundation Dynamics of Coupled Natural-Human Systems program. Claire Welty (Science PI), of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, coordinated all work. $1.4 million budget for five years.

Smith J and Drzyzga SA. Community Build-out Analyses for Selected South Central Pennsylvania Municipalities. Funding provided by the Center for Land Use at Shippensburg University. $6,800 budget for one year.

Marr PG, Pomeroy G and Drzyzga SA. Economic and Transportation Impacts of Warehousing on Rural Pennsylvania. Funding provided by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania and the Center for Land Use at Shippensburg University. $61,605 (CRPa, $40,625; CLU, $20,980) budget for one year

Drzyzga,
SA, A Shortridge, and RJ Schaetzl (2012)
Mapping the Phases of Glacial Lake Algonquin in the upper Great Lakes region,
Canada and USA, using a Geostatistical Isostatic Rebound Model. Journal of Paleolimnology, Special issue: Holocene water levels
and paleo-hydrology of the Laurentian Great Lakes, 47(3):357-371. [doi:10.1007/s10933-011-9550-9]

Drzyzga, SA (2013) “Using Boots on the
Ground & Data in the Cloud to Motivate Student Learning” Paper presented at
the 24th International Conference on
College Teaching and Learning, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.

Drzyzga SA and Marr PG (2012) Transportation and Warehousing
in the Mid-Atlantic region: Before and after the Great Recession. Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers 2012 Annual Meeting at New
York, NY.

Drzyzga SA, Jantz CA, Welty C, Maret M*,
Frederick G* and Ritter B* (2011) The space-time evolution of
commuter flows in the Baltimore Metropolitan Region (1970-2010) and the need to
model land use change as a function of competitiveness. Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers 2011
Annual Meeting at Seattle, WA.

Drzyzga SA, Jantz CA and Welty C (2009) Urban growth
and water supply in the Baltimore, MD metropolitan region. Paper presented at the United States Regional Association of the International Association for
Landscape Ecology 2009 Annual Meeting at Snowbird, UT.

Community and Professional Service

Past-president of the PASSHE GIS Consortium

Faculty co-chair of the SU General Education Council

Member of the Academy of Model Aeronautics, Association of American Geographers, Pennsylvania Geographical Society and the Urban & Regional Information Systems Association.